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Setting labels used: contemporary United States, high school, hospital, family home, post-teen transition, near-future science
Focused on “near future” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1388
In a dystopian YA finale, Tatum races to uncover her erased past, expose the Program, and reclaim the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · high school · institutional control · medical/clinical setting · memory-alteration reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1472
A debut short-story collection where ordinary Black lives collide with near-future horrors, satire, and social violence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · dystopian America · retail world · shopping mall · school · hospital · amusement park · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1572
A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic future · utopian future · dystopian future · deep time · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1585
A grieving teen discovers she’s DNA-bound to protect her best friend from a hidden killer—and from her own changing life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · contemporary world · near future · high school setting · summer holidays · alternate reality · normal family setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1603
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1619
In an alternate America where calling someone stupid is illegal, one outspoken professor’s life and friendships unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate America · near future · contemporary setting · small-town America · university setting · media world · home and family setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1642
Two separated twins collide in a future where infertile adults pay teens to have babies—and belief systems clash.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-virus society · highly controlled society · religious enclave · consumerist society · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1685
In a near-future AI-run world, a medical student uncovers family secrets and a deadly medical mystery in New Orleans.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · New Orleans · New York City · AI-controlled society · medical enclave · university hospital · medical school · alternate healthcare system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1701
A teen falls for a girl, loses her, and gets repeated chances to rewind time—at a cost to everyone else he loves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1408
A satirical dystopia follows a violent American revolution that splits society into separate nations by identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · United States · alternate society · dystopian future · internet age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1709
In a future America that controls girls through chaperones, one teen starts questioning everything after a sudden death.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New America · near future · dystopian future · alternate America · post-secession America · patriarchal society · gender-segregated society · high school setting · library setting · road trip setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1734
